Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
LIVYLaw is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
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A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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